February 25, 2019

Brexit Fog

I don't think I am alone in having lost the plot on Brexit. Exit day is slated for March 29, which hits the Regional Weekend of March Madness and is right after Opening Day in baseball. Then April is big: baseball settles in, the NBA Playoffs, Avengers: Endgame, Game of Thrones... who has time for Brexit? Pushing it back a few months (or years!) is a great idea.

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That quote really hits home. I've lost count of the number of articles that echo that view.

I have reassessed my views on China, but Trump had nothing to do with it. Over and over again. Technology, military, economic, geo-political, etc.

China is an economic powerhouse, well maybe it isn't. North Korea is a Chinese pawn, well maybe it isn't. China's island defenses extend their military's reach, well maybe they'd just make really good US Marine bases after they are captured. Ad Infinitum.

I have now spent more time in Vietnam than Da Nang Dick Blumenthal, the third rate Senator from Connecticut (how is Connecticut doing?). His war stories of his heroism in Vietnam were a total fraud - he was never even there. We talked about it today with Vietnamese leaders!

Michael Cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me (unfortunately). He had other clients also. He was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud. He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying in order to reduce his prison time. Using Crooked’s lawyer!

Fiat Chrysler will be adding more than 6,500 JOBS in Michigan (Detroit area), doubling its hourly workforce as part of a 4.5 Billion Dollar investment. Thank you Fiat Chrysler. They are all coming back to the USA, it’s where the action is!

All false reporting (guessing) on my intentions with respect to North Korea. Kim Jong Un and I will try very hard to work something out on Denuclearization & then making North Korea an Economic Powerhouse. I believe that China, Russia, Japan & South Korea will be very helpful!

I'm going to try and hangout here today as much as I can for international reasons (might be some interesting stuff going on today), for national reasons (anybody seen Stepin Fetchit Jussie, lately?), for Florida reasons (legislative session starts next week) but also for personal reasons.

Today is the birthday of my Georgia Peach; she would have completed her 86th year today. I had a professional videotape her funeral back in December 2017 and I only picked up my copy last week. Still can't watch it.

So . . . my mind will be drifting through memories all day. What better way to snap back to the here and now than to engage with you beautiful folks (and you rascals, too).

With that said, it's a beautiful day in creation and our President is making the most of it; let us do so as well as we rejoice and be glad in it.

This should be an interesting day. I am trying to keep track of what's going on in Hanoi, PLUS there is a mini-war between India and Pakistan and Cohen is going to make snide accusations about the President, but there is really nothing there.

"I have no direct evidence of Russian collusion, but I have my suspicions." That's a quote! You can insert my eyeroll here.

PIn, can't translate. I'll speculate--for a very long time, Pope Pius was thought to be a Nazi sympathizer. Current research shows just the opposite. But may have been chosen by white nationalists as "patron saint" if they thought so.

is he ever going to respond to the thoughtful (AND SOBER!) economics comments i had posted months ago or blow it off with an aw'man sorry.

dude, i'm a gator!

orange and blue.

Posted by: rich | February 26, 2019 at 11:55 PM

Now them thar be fightin' words, Brother Gator. They also be invitin' words.

Link, please. We shall have some comment this here day on that there polemic!

If I remember correctly, rich can be a latenight guy. Does anyone know what he's referencing or have an idea the week or the particular post by TM where the comment occurs ??? I usually don't shy away from an opportunity to talk some yang and I'm not about to start now.

Michael Cohen is preparing to tell a House committee Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time WikiLeaks had emails damaging to rival Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign & that he's a “racist,” a “conman” and “cheat.” @BrennaWISHTV has more. https://bit.ly/2tHdwOd #daybreak8

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Script no doubt provided by Adam Schiff.

I would also like to say that it is disgraceful this is going on while the President is in Hanoi trying to denuclearize North Korea and selling US planes to Hanoi. The democrats truly do hate Trump more than they love the country.

The idea that Assange — someone whose comms are monitored by western governments 24/7 — would *call* Roger Stone and tell him he was about about to release Hilary's emails is absolutely preposterous. Come up with a better story, Michael Cohen.

Agree 100%! When my daughter-in-law went back to work, even though I was caring for the new baby (3 total over the years) she cried, even though she had a relative watching them in her own home. She really wanted to be home, but they couldn't afford it.

Looks to me like the student loan thing is causing a lot of people to have second thoughts about signing up for a private, expensive school. That's a lot of people to lay off, and it seems to me that the school is getting smart before the bottom falls out.

Take the federal government totally out of all college aid, and universities will have to either lower costs dramatically (laying off large numbers of useless or actively harmful administrators and professors of toxic subjects), or go out of business.

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BREAKING ON WISN: New Milw Co Sheriff Earnell Lucas is changing policy and refusing to cooperate with ICE and hold illegals, unless there was already a bench warrant out for that illegal alien that his deputies ran across.

And rse, she was such a phenomenal woman. Late into life she worked as a domestic for a fairly prominent Jacksonville / Orange Park blended family; white folks. Two attorneys, both Gators.

The couple were blessed with twins, a boy and a girl, just as my mother began her job with them. Their mother was overwhelmed by the twins, and the boy initially had a physical issue that required tremendous attention but between the two women, they shepherded him back to good health.

Both kids are now attorneys working in Jacksonville, both loved our mother as we did and both mourned her passing as much as we did.

A God-fearing woman, she was a seemingly bottomless pit of love and caring. But she had a bite, and when she balled up her fist with her index finger knuckle protruding just bit, you knew your ass had better cease and desist immediately!

Trump inspires hate the way highly successful and psychologically intrepid men do. I learned this personally by having an extremely successful and unorthodox father (a Manhattan CEO who reached a career pinnacle in his late 30s and was fulsomely praised and secretly despised, as I came to understand). There is no end they will not go to drag him down. This is a detestable fact of the human condition. Trump has chosen to operate in a power milieu of a particularly fierce and smelly orthodoxy (in Orwell's words) and of vindictiveness toward outsiders. They will not stop, and Trump has very little recourse within the system because they ALL are corrupt and resent and despise him as the outsider. He's in the toughest position imaginable for a leader in the modern world.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at February 27, 2019 08:01 AM (H8QX8)

A God-fearing woman, she was a seemingly bottomless pit of love and caring. But she had a bite, and when she balled up her fist with her index finger knuckle protruding just bit, you knew your ass had better cease and desist immediately!

Across the U.S. transgender athletes are breaking barriers in high school, college, and pro sports and being embraced by teammates and fans. But resentments can still flare when transgender women start winning and dominating their sport.

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Do tell. I am sure if I had trained all my life to perform at championship level and then a person who had matured AS A MAN with bigger bones, better upper body strength, and a longer stride came in and beat me, I would be a little bit resentful, especially since for years international sports tested testosterone levels of female athletes to make sure they weren't female impersonators.

RG - Welcome home! Thanks for sharing the memories of your mom with us. She was a jewel and I know you miss her so!

I loved the photos and videos of how President Trump is being received in Vietnam. May God bless this summit and may his enemies be exposed and hung on their own gallows as was Haman! I cannot imagine hating one person so much that you desire your entire country to fail.

Cohen and the MSM are pathetic. I agree with Janet - No Clicks for Cohen!

MM, Liberals know female athletics are soft targets that are no match for their weaponized trans advocacy regime. Who has the fortitude and deep pockets to afford to resist? Liberalism is a cancer that ultimately destroys its host.

Look squirrel is the Dems QB sneak in their playbook. They all need DIAF as JamesD would say. Preventing wars and denuclearization is not as important as having a convicted liar testifying to Congress and lying again since he has nothing to lose.

Welcome RG!
Your mother raised a wonderful son and she is an inspiration to all here who have raised children.
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I also was the main source of income and having relatives help out and good pre-school was a godsend.
Cohen was and always will be a sideshow.
Today no questions on fake Russia collusion are permitted.
Mainly it is about his secretive illegal taxi business and other lies about his former client.
Meeks has leaks from his testimony yesterday when all other channels had the President and Kim speaking.

To answer your question, the public Company I was General Counsel of was bought out in 1997 when I was pregnant with my 3rd child. I got a nice severance as they wanted to pick my brain and the acquiring company became a member of S & P 500 about a week after merger agreement with stock conversion ratio finalized was signed. Later one of my kids developed health problems that needed my full-time attention for a number of years.

I fell into the healthcare story because the analysis I had done in healthcare that let us create very effective contracts at controlling risk made me aware that a shift was going on in ed. Now I know why, health and education are two prongs of subjective well-being, the supposed purpose of governments in the 21st century.

On the issue of staying home, at a certain point you realize how many costs can be controlled by an ability to control expenses, such as always cooking at home instead of eating out.

That should read I fell into the education story, not healthcare. My ability to ask questions in public forums when I decided to shift the child with medical issues to a public high school started the process of politicians coming up to me afterwards and asking more questions. They then kept putting me in more situations where I had access to non-public info and I just started putting the pieces together.

The book was written because people kept saying to my face that "everyone needed acccess to what you just told me."